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	<h2>About Sycamore</h2>

	<h3>Why was it made?</h3>
	<p>Sycamore was created as a 3rd year Computer Science project at the University of Glasgow
 	    with the puropse  to provide a secure and simple application which friends and colleagues can manage 
	    their own PDF files as well as search their friends PDF files.
	</p>

	<h3>How does Sycamore achieve this?</h3>
	<p>
           Sycamore combinines full text search technology within a peer to peer architecture.
	   This architecture will be based on Skype, where a super peer will be
	   responsible for managing users and connections, and a P2P architecture will be
           used to enable searching and sharing content among peers.  Sycamore will use 
	   the Terrier information retrival system which is developed at the University of
	   Glasgow to provide document searching facilities.
	</p>


	<h3>What makes Sycamore unique?</h3>
	<p>
		While there are many peer to peer (P2P) file sharing applications such as
		Limewire, Naptster, etc, these applications enable anonymous sharing of content
		(usually multimedia content). Content is found through keyword based
		matching of meta-data (such as file name and short descriptions populated by
		users), where the query is sent throughout the network. This project is different
		because it focuses on sharing textual content between known peers, and enables
		full text search of the content.
 	</p>

	<h3>Who Created Sycamore?</h3>
	<p>Sycamore was created by James Kelly, David Reid and Alan Dunk under the supervison of Leif Azzopardi.</p>


	<h3>Where can I find out more?</h3>	
	<p>The project report can be found <a href="images/menu-hover.jpg">here</a</p>
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